Justine Dunlap

faculty

Justine Dunlap

Professor

Law School / Faculty

Contact

508-985-1158

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UMass School of Law 226

Education

Case Western Reserve University JD
Ohio State UniversityBA

Teaching

  • Civil Procedure
  • Domestic Violence Law
  • Field Placement
  • Family Law Practice

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

The Academic Skills Lab is a non-credit bearing, weekly course for first year law students. Participation is mandatory during the fall semester when instruction focuses on a variety of fundamental legal skills such as law school study skills, case reading and briefing, legal analysis, and law school examination preparation. In the spring semester, the program's focus is remedial. First year students are referred to weekly workshop sessions designed to improve law school exam performance

The Academic Skills Lab is a non-credit bearing, weekly course for first year law students. Participation is mandatory during the fall semester when instruction focuses on a variety of fundamental legal skills such as law school study skills, case reading and briefing, legal analysis, and law school examination preparation. In the spring semester, the program's focus is remedial. First year students are referred to weekly workshop sessions designed to improve law school exam performance

Introduction to the procedural rules governing non-criminal disputes, with focus on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including jurisdiction, service of process, venue, parties, pleading and discovery, the right to jury trial, the trial process, appellate review, and res judicata.

Introduction to the procedural rules governing non-criminal disputes, with focus on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, including jurisdiction, service of process, venue, parties, pleading and discovery, the right to jury trial, the trial process, appellate review, and res judicata.

A continuation of LAW 545, Civil Procedure I

Course introducing mindfulness practices to law students. In this class, students will learn the science that grounds the effectiveness of mindfulness techniques. They will also practice techniques in class and work, both in and out of class, to cultivate a mindfulness practice. The goal is to give students the tools to be healthy and effective practitioners.

Professional background

Professor Dunlap taught at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, American University Law School, and the University of Baltimore Law School. 

She began her legal career at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. She then worked at the D.C. Superior Court, in Washington, D.C., as staff attorney and Director of the Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect.

Professor Dunlap is a member of the Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Maryland, and Arkansas bars. She also serves as the Faculty Advisor for the Legal Association for Women at UMass Law.

Professor Dunlap's publications have focused on domestic violence and juvenile law, mental health law, and law school teaching. Her current scholarship interests focus on the use of apology in the law, including apology statutes, their goals, and outcomes.

Publications

Law review articles

Soft Misogyny: The Subtle Perversion of Domestic Violence “Reform,” 46 Seton Hall Law Review 775 (2016)

A Glossary of Experiential Education in Law Schools, 7 Elon Law Review 12 (2015) (co-author) (Symposium Issue)

Intimate Terrorism and Technology: There’s an App for That, 7 U. Mass L. Rev. 10 (2012) (lead article)

A contribution, "A Humanizing Classroom Exercise," to Techniques for Teaching Law 2 (2011): I’d Just as Soon Flunk You as Look at You? The Evolution to Humanizing in a Large Classroom, 47 Washburn L.J. 101 (2008), which was selected as the April 2011 article of the month by the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning

A Review of What’s Wrong with Children’s Rights: Still a ‘Slogan in Search of a Definition’, 11 U.C. Davis J. of Juv. L. & Pol. 181 (2007)

Judging Nicholson: An Assessment of Nicholson v. Scoppetta, 82 Denv. U. L. Rev. 671 (2005) 

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child: The Error of Pursuing Battered Mothers for Failure to Protect, 50 Loy. L. Rev. 565 (2004)

Reflection-in-Action: Lessons Learned from New Clinicians, 11 Clinical L. Rev. 49 (2004) (with Peter Joy) 

The Pitiless Double Abuse of Battered Mothers, 11 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol’y & L. 523 (2003) 

Mental Health Advance Directives: Having One’s Say?, 89 Ky L.J. 327 (2001) 

I Don’t Want to Play God: A Response to Professor Tremblay, 67 Fordham L. Rev. 601 (1999)

What’s Competence Got to Do With It: The Right Not to Be Acquitted by Reason of Insanity, 50 Okla. L. Rev. 495 (1997)

Books and other writings

Skill & Values Series: Family Law, Carolina Acad Press, ISBN 978-1-63282-096-9; 2018

Doctrine and Practice and Skills, Oh My: A First-Year Curricular Experiment, Vol. 18 No.1, Law Teacher 12 (Fall 2011)

Practice Manual for Child Abuse and Neglect Cases in the District of Columbia One of three co-authors for the first edition in March 1988; contributing author for 2nd Ed. (1996) & 3rd Ed. (2008)

District of Columbia Practice Manual, Child Abuse and Neglect Chapter, 3rd Ed. (1994) (contributing author)